Chapter 5

Input/Output
5.1 Principles of I/O hardware
5.2 Principles of I/O software
5.3 I/O software layers
5.4 I/O devices: Disks,
Character-oriented terminals,
Clocks

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5.1 Principles of I/O hardware

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Types of I/O devices

Two main groups: Block and Character Devices

• Block devices include disk drives
– Commands include read, write, seek
– Raw I/O or file-system access
– Memory-mapped file access possible
• Character devices include keyboards, mice, serial ports
– Commands include get, put
– Libraries layered on top allow line editing

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Types of I/O devices
Some typical device, network, and data base rates

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Common concepts

Common concepts
– I/O Device Controller
– I/O Port
– I/O Bus

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Device Controllers
Monitor

Bus

• Components of a simple personal computer

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Device Controllers
• I/O devices have components:
– electromechanical component
– electronic component
• The electronic component is the device
controller
– may be able to handle multiple devices
• Controller's tasks (Disk)
– convert serial bit stream to block of bytes
– perform error correction as necessary
– make available to main memory
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 Principles of I/O Hardware
I/O Port

I/O Port is a register in device interface. Example: Device I/O Port

Locations on PCs (partial)

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Principles of I/O Hardware
A Typical PC Bus Structure

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
I/O address

• I/O instructions control devices

• Devices have addresses, used by
– Direct I/O instructions
– Memory-mapped I/O

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Memory-Mapped I/O (1)

• Separate I/O and memory space

• Memory-mapped I/O
• Hybrid
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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Memory-Mapped I/O (2)

(a) A single-bus architecture

(b) A dual-bus memory architecture
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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Data transfer Method between CPU and I/O device

Three Data I/O transfer Methods:

• Programmed I/O
• Interrupt-Driven I/O
• Direct Memory Access - DMA

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Programmed I/O, Polling

• Determines state of device

– ready
– busy
– error
• Busy-wait cycle to wait for I/O from device

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Interrupt-Driven I/O

How interrupts happens. Connections between devices and interrupt controller

actually use interrupt lines on the bus rather than dedicated wires

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Example: Interrupts of PC computer

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Principles of I/O Hardware
Direct Memory Access (DMA)

Operation of a DMA transfer

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 Principles of I/O Hardware
Example: DMA Transfer in PC Computer

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5.2 Principles of I/O software

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 Principles of I/O Software
Goals of I/O Software (1)
• Device independence
– programs can access any I/O device
– without specifying device in advance
(floppy, hard drive, or CD-ROM)
• Uniform naming
– name of a file or device is a string or an integer
– not depending on which machine
• Error handling
– handle as close to the hardware as possible

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 Principles of I/O Software
Goals of I/O Software (2)
• Synchronous vs. asynchronous transfers
– blocked transfers vs. interrupt-driven
• Buffering
– data coming off a device cannot be stored in
final destination
• Sharable vs. dedicated devices
– disks are sharable
– tape drives would not be

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Principles of I/O Software
Programmed I/O (1)

Steps in printing a string

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 Principles of I/O Software
Programmed I/O (2)

Writing a string to the printer using

programmed I/O
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 Principles of I/O Software
Interrupt-Driven I/O

• Writing a string to the printer using interrupt-driven I/O

– Code executed when print system call is made
– Interrupt service procedure
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 Principles of I/O Software
I/O Using DMA

• Printing a string using DMA

– code executed when the print system call is made
– interrupt service procedure

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A Kernel I/O Structure:
Hardware And Software

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5.3 I/O software layers

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 I/O Software Layers

Layers of the I/O Software System

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 I/O Software Layers
Interrupt Handlers (1)
• Interrupt handlers are best hidden
– have driver starting an I/O operation block until
interrupt notifies of completion
• Interrupt procedure does its task
– then unblocks driver that started it
• Steps must be performed in software after interrupt
completed
1. Save regs not already saved by interrupt hardware
2. Set up context for interrupt service procedure

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 I/O Software Layers
Interrupt Handlers (2)
3. Set up stack for interrupt service procedure
4. Ack interrupt controller, reenable interrupts
5. Copy registers from where saved to process
table
6. Run service procedure
7. Set up MMU context for process to run next
8. Load new process' registers
9. Start running the new process

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 I/O Software Layers
Device Drivers

• Logical position of device drivers is shown here

• Communications between drivers and device controllers goes
over the bus
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 I/O Software Layers
Device-Independent I/O Software (1)

Uniform interfacing for device drivers

Buffering
Error reporting
Allocating and releasing dedicate devices
Providing a device-independent block
size

Functions of the device-independent I/O software

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 I/O Software Layers
Device-Independent I/O Software (2)

(a) Without a standard driver interface

(b) With a standard driver interface
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 I/O Software Layers
Device-Independent I/O Software (3)

(a) Unbuffered input

(b) Buffering in user space
(c) Buffering in the kernel followed by copying to user space
(d) Double buffering in the kernel

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 I/O Software Layers
Device-Independent I/O Software (4)

Networking may involve many copies

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 User-Space I/O Software

Layers of the I/O system and the main functions of each layer

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5.4 I/O devices

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 I/O devices

• Storage devices: Hard Disks, CD-ROM,

CD-R, DVD…
• Display devices: Character-oriented
terminals, Graphical user interfaces
• Clocks

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Disk Hardware (1)

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 Disk Hardware (2)

• Raid levels 0 through 2

• Backup and parity drives are shaded
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 Disk Hardware (3)

• Raid levels 3 through 5

• Backup and parity drives are shaded
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 Display Hardware (1)

Parallel port

Memory-mapped displays
• driver writes directly into display's video RAM

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Display Hardware (2)

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Display Hardware (3)

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 Character Oriented Terminals
RS-232 Terminal Hardware

• An RS-232 terminal communicates with computer 1 bit at a time

• Called a serial line – bits go out in series, 1 bit at a time
• Windows uses COM1 and COM2 ports, first to serial lines
• Computer and terminal are completely independent
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 Clocks
Clock Hardware

A programmable clock
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